Francesca Annis Quotes

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I’m the same weight now as I’ve always been-even before having children-but I have to say there’s been a redistribution of the flesh!

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?